The San Francisco Unified School District is opening a school in the Mission Bay neighborhood on a parcel earmarked since 1998 in plans to redevelop a former railyard and industrial area.
The $95 million school at 1415 Owens St., near the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, will open for prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students Aug. 17.
It will grow to a 550-student elementary school serving pre-K through fifth grade. The four-story, 82,000-square-foot structure was funded by school bonds approved by voters in 2016.
“Mission Bay School represents an investment in our students, our families, and the future of San Francisco,” Board of Education President Phil Kim said at a ribbon-cutting on Friday.
The parcel was formally transferred from UCSF to SFUSD in 2022, although the plan for a school there has been in the works since 1998, when supervisors approved redevelopment of 303 acres between San Francisco Bay and Interstate Highway 280.
“San Francisco is opening the first new school in over 10 years here in Mission Bay,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said. “What was once an industrial area with abandoned rail lines and empty lots is now home to world-class medical care, beautiful bayfront parks, and a growing community of families.”
The new school’s attendance area is the current Daniel Webster Elementary School attendance area, encompassing the Embarcadero, South of Market, Potrero Hill, Dogpatch and Mission Bay neighborhoods.